Agenda 21 topic of GOP ladies luncheon

Published: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 5:36 p.m.

Last Modified: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 5:36 p.m.

A United Nations plot to strip American citizens of their rights pervades all levels of government, a speaker told the Henderson County Republican Women’s Club Tuesday, and it’s up to citizens to monitor local boards and councils to prevent further intrusions.

Agenda 21, a U.N. treaty signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, seeks to abolish individual and private property rights in insidious ways, said Victoria Baer, a Florida ad agency owner who travels the Southeast on her own dime speaking to groups about the issue.

“Agenda 21 isn’t just this little thing,” Baer told roughly 70 conservatives lunching at The Cedars. “It’s like a big octopus with legs sticking everywhere. It goes into your Second Amendment, it goes into your schools as Common Core, it goes into your communities as (federal) grants — it goes in everywhere.”

Underlying all of it, Baer said, is an internationally hatched plan to take away Americans’ property rights, redistribute U.S. wealth to poor countries and pack its citizenry into dense urban cores in order to preserve natural areas for plants and animals.

Beware of code words used by government officials who are part of Agenda 21, Baer said. “Walkable cities” and “bike paths” are part of an effort to restrict people’s travel, she said, while “smart growth” and “regionalism” are euphemisms for communism. “Equity” and “fairness” are other watchwords used by Agenda 21 bureaucrats.

“Anytime I hear ‘fairness,’ I want to throw up,” Baer said.

In the name of equity, Baer said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is shoe-horning affordable housing in the middle of certain Census tracts with a billion-dollar grant program the agency announced last April.

“So what that means is in your nice gated communities, you’re going to have Section 8 housing,” she said. “What happens? You can’t sell your property, you want to get the heck out and what happens to the neighborhood? It goes to pot.”

When local governmental officials accept federal funds such as HUD grants, Baer said, they typically don’t examine the strings attached.

“And buried in that grant is, ‘You will legislate, regulate or zone your citizens out of their property,’” she said. “It doesn’t say it that way. But it says it in sneaky ways, like you take parking areas out of business areas, or you have to build bike paths.”

Baer said Agenda 21 encourages America’s turning from capitalism to communism in four major ways: by limiting natural resources, restricting peoples’ right to privacy, pushing socialized medicine and abolishing private property rights.

She cited the Transportation Security Administration and the Patriot Act of 2001 — which Baer said allows warrantless searches of your home — as examples of infringements on personal liberties.

“TSA — come on, guys,” she said. “That’s conditioning our children that a stranger’s hands in their underpants is OK. We have (for) years taught ‘stranger danger’ and now look what’s happening. What kills me is, Americans stand there and put up with it.”

And it’s not just the government pushing Agenda 21, Baer said. It’s nonprofit groups like Ducks Unlimited, the National Wildlife Federation, the Nature Conservancy and Habitat for Humanity. These groups and the foundations that support them are trying to limit access to America’s biggest source of wealth, she said.

“How a country builds wealth is their natural resources,” Baer said. “And when they’re blocked from getting their natural resources, the wealth of a country goes down and that’s why there’s a huge, huge effort to shut down our gas, our coal, our oil drilling, because they’ve got to shut down the wealthy resources.”

“What’s the point in doing that?” asked an audience member.

“So that we’re a poor nation,” Baer replied. “To get control.”

Baer said she studied under Michael Coffman, whom she credited with halting ratification of an international biodiversity treaty by the U.S. Senate in 1994. Coffman, a former manager for pulp and timber giant Champion International, is “a genius” who has traced Agenda 21’s infiltration of U.S. governments and nonprofits, she said.

<p>A United Nations plot to strip American citizens of their rights pervades all levels of government, a speaker told the Henderson County Republican Women's Club Tuesday, and it's up to citizens to monitor local boards and councils to prevent further intrusions.</p><p>Agenda 21, a U.N. treaty signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1992, seeks to abolish individual and private property rights in insidious ways, said Victoria Baer, a Florida ad agency owner who travels the Southeast on her own dime speaking to groups about the issue.</p><p>“Agenda 21 isn't just this little thing,” Baer told roughly 70 conservatives lunching at The Cedars. “It's like a big octopus with legs sticking everywhere. It goes into your Second Amendment, it goes into your schools as Common Core, it goes into your communities as (federal) grants — it goes in everywhere.”</p><p>Underlying all of it, Baer said, is an internationally hatched plan to take away Americans' property rights, redistribute U.S. wealth to poor countries and pack its citizenry into dense urban cores in order to preserve natural areas for plants and animals. </p><p>Beware of code words used by government officials who are part of Agenda 21, Baer said. “Walkable cities” and “bike paths” are part of an effort to restrict people's travel, she said, while “smart growth” and “regionalism” are euphemisms for communism. “Equity” and “fairness” are other watchwords used by Agenda 21 bureaucrats.</p><p>“Anytime I hear 'fairness,' I want to throw up,” Baer said. </p><p>In the name of equity, Baer said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is shoe-horning affordable housing in the middle of certain Census tracts with a billion-dollar grant program the agency announced last April.</p><p>“So what that means is in your nice gated communities, you're going to have Section 8 housing,” she said. “What happens? You can't sell your property, you want to get the heck out and what happens to the neighborhood? It goes to pot.”</p><p>When local governmental officials accept federal funds such as HUD grants, Baer said, they typically don't examine the strings attached. </p><p>“And buried in that grant is, 'You will legislate, regulate or zone your citizens out of their property,'” she said. “It doesn't say it that way. But it says it in sneaky ways, like you take parking areas out of business areas, or you have to build bike paths.”</p><p>Baer said Agenda 21 encourages America's turning from capitalism to communism in four major ways: by limiting natural resources, restricting peoples' right to privacy, pushing socialized medicine and abolishing private property rights.</p><p>She cited the Transportation Security Administration and the Patriot Act of 2001 — which Baer said allows warrantless searches of your home — as examples of infringements on personal liberties. </p><p>“TSA — come on, guys,” she said. “That's conditioning our children that a stranger's hands in their underpants is OK. We have (for) years taught 'stranger danger' and now look what's happening. What kills me is, Americans stand there and put up with it.”</p><p>And it's not just the government pushing Agenda 21, Baer said. It's nonprofit groups like Ducks Unlimited, the National Wildlife Federation, the Nature Conservancy and Habitat for Humanity. These groups and the foundations that support them are trying to limit access to America's biggest source of wealth, she said.</p><p>“How a country builds wealth is their natural resources,” Baer said. “And when they're blocked from getting their natural resources, the wealth of a country goes down and that's why there's a huge, huge effort to shut down our gas, our coal, our oil drilling, because they've got to shut down the wealthy resources.”</p><p>“What's the point in doing that?” asked an audience member.</p><p>“So that we're a poor nation,” Baer replied. “To get control.”</p><p>Baer said she studied under Michael Coffman, whom she credited with halting ratification of an international biodiversity treaty by the U.S. Senate in 1994. Coffman, a former manager for pulp and timber giant Champion International, is “a genius” who has traced Agenda 21's infiltration of U.S. governments and nonprofits, she said.</p><p>“Guys, we've got to wake up to what's going on,” she said. “When you hear United Nations — remember 'Lost in Space?' 'Danger, danger Will Robinson?' — the robot better start going off.”</p><p>Baer will speak to the Henderson County Republican Men's Club at 8 a.m. at the Opportunity House at 1411 Asheville Highway. The public is invited. </p><p>Reach Axtell at 828-694-7860 or than.axtell@blueridgenow.com.</p>